This article originally appeared on VICE Netherlands.

Iepe Rubingh does a final check of the venue to make sure everything is ready. There's a small table inside a boxing ring, with a stool either side of it. The audience has their eyes glued to the doors, waiting for the athletes to emerge. Tonight, they're hoping to witness either a checkmate, a knockout or both we are, after all, at a chess boxing match.

Like korfball and ball shooting (the Dutch word, "klootschieten", is more fun), chess boxing is another unique sport born in the Netherlands. Former performance artist Iepe Rubingh came up with the intriguing combination of brain and fist-fighting, before stepping into the ring himself for the world's very first match, in 2003.

Sixteen years on, Ignition Festival is hosting another match in the same venue, Amsterdam's iconic church-turned-concert hall, Paradiso.

Out in the hallway, Olegs Petrovsky from Latvia is almost ready, rinsing his mouth guard. He'll play a round of chess, followed by a round of boxing. If five rounds of both don't result in either a knockout or a checkmate, a panel of judges will decide on the winner.

"That first time was incredibly nerve-wracking," says Rubingh. "We had no idea how a match would actually play out. Aside from a year of extensive prep work through training, we didn't have much experience with either chess or boxing. The guys fighting today are a thousand times better."

That's probably because the sport has grown by about a thousandfold since that first match. About 3,500 people participate worldwide, with matches organised in Finland, India, Russia and Germany.

Petrovsky pulls up the hood of his robe and steps into the room. Daniil Soloviev, his Russian opponent, also enters the ring, taking his place on one of the stools. According to the announcer, the men will begin by flexing their chess muscles. The athletes wear noise-canceling headphones to increase their focus. They won't hear the announcer's scream of surprise at Solovievs risky moves.

The audience watches the game on a big screen, while the guys smack their pieces onto the board and hit the timer as soon as theyve made their move. The crowd is going wild, but neither player hears a thing.

Kick-boxing legend Rem Bonjasky is seated next to the announcer, waiting to commentate on the boxing segment. "He's super smart," says Rubingh. "If he were an actual chess boxer, he might have been world champion."

The first round of boxing gets underway. You'd think most chess players eschew violence, but in chess boxing it's an essential element of the game players punch each other in the gut and in the jaw. To compete in chess boxing, you need to have at least rudimentary knowledge of both, says Rubingh. "Otherwise, youll be on the ground in 12 seconds flat or checkmated in the first round."

Petrovsky resumes his chess game with a fresh cut to the head. Rubingh explains that he would be feeling exhilarated. "All of your blood flows to your muscles, so you dont have a lot of oxygen in your head. Youre thinking under a lot of pressure it's like being an astronaut or a soldier." With ringing ears and a heart-rate of 160 beats per minute, the guys try to focus on the board in front of them.

The match goes five rounds without a knockout or checkmate. But Solovievs timer goes off during the final chess round the Russian has run out of time, and so Petrovsky wins. The evenings second match is between Denis Gurba (Russia) and Sakari Lhderinne (Finland). The Russian player is out for revenge, after the Finn won their most recent battle.

Chess pieces fly off the board, punches are thrown even faster. Then, toward the end of round three, Gurba has his opponent all but cornered on the chessboard. Just before he can seal the deal, the bell rings, signalling them to step back into the boxing ring.

After a well-placed hit to the jaw, Gurba slumps. He gets a standing eight count, and the roles suddenly seem reversed. But despite wobbling, Gurba somehow stays upright. He makes it to the end of the round and back onto his stool, where he checkmates Lhderinne.

Chess boxing might sound like a joke, but the atmosphere is electric and the athletes are impressive. The punches are also very real my camera got whacked, and I left with a bloody eyebrow to rival Petrovskys.

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WGM Swati Ghate became the second victim in five days of the strict anti-watch rule at the Indian Team Championship. Like Baskaran Adhiban, she forfeited her game for wearing an analog watch, despite attempts by her opponentIM Tania Sachdev to continue the game.

Only a few days after GM Baskaran Adhiban forfeited his third-round game in the National Team Open in India for wearing an analog wristwatch, the same happened to another player. As reported by Chessbase India, Swati forfeited her game in the last round after a deputy arbiter had noticed a watch on her wrist.

Unlike Adhiban's opponent, who claimed the win himself, Sachdev wanted to continue the game.

"I had noticed the watch a couple of moves into the game," Sachdev told Chess.com. "I had no intention of informing the arbiter so I continued playing without giving it any thought. A few moves later the section arbiter spotted the watch and declared a loss. I requested the section arbiter, and on being refused, the chief arbiter, to let us continue but it wasn't possible due to rules."

The game was played in the last round of the championship, which took place in Ahmedabad, the largest city in the Indian state of Gujarat. The incident with Adhiban occurred in the third round, last Saturday.

Swati, a seasoned player with three IM norms who played for India at four Olympiads (1998, 2002, 2006 and 2008),was unavailable for comments.

In most FIDE events, electronic devices are banned. However, inMarch 2018, the All India Chess Federation (AICF) banned the use of all wristwatches to simplify matters for arbiters.

Two players lost their games in less than a weekand a third in total. GM Martyn Kravtsiv was the first victim at the 2018the KIIT Open in Orissa. The call for changing the rule is getting stronger.

Sachdev: "Its unfortunate and no one should win or lose like this. I am not sure whats the solution. I get the rule of no electronics. The idea of allowing analog is also not as easy as in big tournaments its difficult for arbiters to check each watch to ensure if its analog or not. I am going to leave it to the experts to figure out a way forward so such incidents dont happen and the players need to do their bit and follow rules."

It was already after the incident with Adhiban that AICF secretary Bharat Singh Chauhan suggested that the rule might be changed."[I]f there are enough player voices who come up to us and say they want it changed, we will look into it," he said.

Update Feb. 14: Mr Chaugan gave a further comment to Chess.com:

"The rule was made just to ease out the task. We run a tournament with over 2500 players playing at the same time so to keep a vigil on smartwatches was never too easy.

However, in the face of what has transpired in the cases of Adhiban and Swati, it looks like we need to address this again. We will seek the advice of our Arbiters Commission on the matter."

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Imagine, if you will, a sport that simultaneously pushed its athletes to their physical and intellectual limits a sport that requires an extreme amount of focus, restraint, and raw power. Well, imagine no longer, as the odd, but nevertheless impressive, new sport known as chess boxing has burst onto the scene.

Chess boxing is a sport in which two athletes alternate between six rounds of chess and five rounds of boxing, lasting three minutes each. In chess boxing, the winner is whoever gets a checkmate or a knockout first. Athletes can also be disqualified for trying to stall for time and, in the event of a draw, the winner is determined by points scored in the boxing ring. If the two athletes are still tied after their five boxing rounds have been assessed by the judges, the athlete playing the black side in chess is determined to be the winner.

This sport of two extremes was created by Dutch performance artist Iepe Rubingh in the early 2000s. Rubinghs idea was to create performance art to make people think by ushering in a new sport that was based on the 1992 comic Froid quateur. In the comic, there is a chess boxing championship in which two athletes spend an entire day in a boxing match (with a ring painted like a giant chessboard) and the next day in a round of chess. Rubingh likely found this set up to be unwieldy, so he refined the rules to make a match of chess boxing more manageable in terms of time. In 2003, Rubingh started the first official chess boxing competition and, somewhat unsurprisingly, became the first champion.

What was surprising was that this new sport ended up becoming wildly popular. Since then, in collaboration with the Dutch Boxing Association and the Dutch Chess Federation, the World Chess Boxing Organization was formed with the goal of legitimizing chess boxing worldwide. Rubingh himself has set aside his career as an artist to focus on promoting and expanding the sport, which is particularly popular in Germany, the UK, India, and Russia.

One of the most difficult aspects of the sport is the mental fortitude it requires. It can be extremely taxing to amp yourself up for a fight, only to have to quickly calm down for a tough mental exercise, and then have to repeat the process up to six times. The official Chess Boxing Global website describes this unique challenge, noting that chess boxing is a rare blend of contrasting skills that requires athletes to combine a powerful body with a sharp mind. While there are many quirky elements to the sport, its this transition between physical and intellectual extremes that creators and proponents of the sport describe as its most intriguing feature. As the official website notes, In the ring, the fighter is fueled by testosterone, adrenaline, and skill. Three minutes later, he [or she] changes battlegrounds. The contender has only seconds to restrain his fighting instinct and move into the silent logic of his mind. It is the only sport in which the heart, mind and body perform in total harmony.

Personally, I think one of the coolest things about this sport is the fact that its entirely possible that someone with no boxing experience could beat Floyd Mayweather in what is technically, at least partially, a boxing match. All this could be done without having to actually fight him, as long as the checkmate was secured in the first round of chess. If not, well, that might be the last game of chess one ever played.

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What do relationships mean to us. Valentines Day Weekend is a time to consider our connection to love and what it means to our lives. The love and awareness we have of self is a gateway to how we view other people. Yet, often in close relationships, the desires we have for ourselves and self-awareness, are projected on to our family and beloved. We seek to change others, instead of accepting them unconditionally.

I find this layer very hard to achieve. As much as I am accepting of others, I also wish for them to be making healthy choices for themselves.

Perhaps helpful is to gain perspective. Eckhart Tolle teaches something which may be applied to help in this regard:

What a liberation to realize that the voice in my head is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

Past our immediate thoughts and feelings, instinctual reactions and thought-responses, is something unfathomable a spiritual oasis which is innately peaceful, unconditionally loving and giving. It is a helpful skill to connect to this internal universe. That way we will be less inclined in future to be reactive, and more likely to respond with compassion. When the external relational world is cluttered and overly emotional, close your eyes, go within and touch the divine.

When you open your eyes, it will help to see your relationships from a divine perspective. The voice in your head will soften and shift in time to match your soul vibration.Patterns of hurt and reactivity can be overcome with this type of mindfulness.

Its a valuable reminder to enjoy the souls you have chosen to share this human incarnation with. I am sure I am not the only one, who has taken people for granted, or expected things from them. Its hard to avoid a certain level of expectation.

We are often also caught up in emotional arguments that cloud the feelings of love and heartfelt compassion beneath the surface.

Most of us have challenging individuals in our families and perhaps even difficult partners or lovers. There are many underlying reasons for this, and much complexity. It is important to honour the journey of others, and also acknowledge that we have chosen important figures in our lives to share our journey. If we have chosen it, there is a soul purpose for it. It may range from being quite obvious to being almost impossible at this time to understand or accept. This is particularly true of having abusive people as family members or partners.

It is important to both give and receive love. It is important to develop a balance of self-love and service of other people. If we go too far in giving or taking, then we lose this balance.

Some of us fail to balance our needs with the needs of others, being selfless or selfish. We fail to listen to our hearts, so we judge ourselves and others harshly. (quoted from Wisdom of Souls by Michael Newton Institute,p.89)

Why are people in our lives? Especially people we consider difficult?

We attract partners who are like us. Our unresolved issues draw to us others with similar emotional patterns. We have been designed to resolve our issues. Until we do, others will be like mirrors, reflecting our distortions and dysfunctions back to us. A closed heart will meet another closed heart, until we awaken. (quoted from Wisdom of Souls by Michael Newton Institute, p.109)

The goal is awakening, and what higher goal could there be? The people in our lives are not accidental. If we want to change what turns up, we have to look within and change our patterns.

This Valentines Day weekend, will you bless yourself with love and fully embrace and enjoy the experience of being human? Will you sing and dance whilst opening your heart to love? Will you connect with your loved ones and share the sacred blessings of I love you to those who have your heart. My prayer for you is that you will be the love you wish to see in the world.

With All My Love,

David

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NUTLEY, NJ - Good Vibes Yoga is hosting a day of healing today to support the family effected by the Jan. 18 house fire on Park Ave. The day will be a chance for the yoga community to come together in the wake of the tragedy.

Over the course of the day, there will be fouryoga classes will be offered, two will be a hotVinyasa class and twowill be a non-hot beginner/gentle Vinyasa classes.These classes and times can be viewed here: https://www.goodvibesyogabar.com/schedule-by-class/

Participants are encouraged to RSVP as the room can only fit so many mats. People are encouragedto bringmats but have some mats will be available - theywill be offered free of charge for the day if needed.

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Any donation amount will be accepted, but we suggest an amount of $20, especially if taking a yoga class. A donation bin will be left out at the studio for those who want to support the effort but cannot take a class.

At 3:15 p.m. there will be a Satsang (or gathering) where Lou Redmond, who attended middle school and High School with Amanda, will lead a metta meditation and then Cristin Shea will lead everyonein a traditional chanting exerciseused in yoga as a sort of affirmation, or prayer, in hopes to ease the suffering of those effected by this tragedy. This portion does not cost anything or require any reservation.

Classes will be taking place all day, view the classschedule here:classes and times can be viewed here: https://www.goodvibesyogabar.com/schedule-by-class/

Good Vibes Yoga is located at 237 Franklin Ave. Nutley NJ.

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In the spirit of Valentines Day, O Yoga Studio hosted a special holiday couples yoga event on Feb. 7 and will continue to host events throughout the week.

Cynthia Powers-Broccoli, a registered yoga teacher, said that the goal of the couples yoga class was to highlight appreciation for the divine feminine, ones expression of femininity and its nurturing energy.

Despite yoga being her full-time profession now, it was initially her way to destress from the mental exhaustion of working in major metropolises.

After graduating from Boston College in the 1990s, Powers-Broccoli relocated to New York City, where she was hired in a bank. During this period in her life, she observed that other women had difficulty balancing the stresses of work life and the home life.

They were pulled in a million different directions, you know, they wanted to be at home with their kids, but they also had great careers and they wanted to be hardworking there, Powers-Broccoli said. And what was left for their partners was exhaustion, instead of the female warm, nurturing, loving essence.

But 15 years ago. when her son was only a year old, Powers-Broccoli said she decided that she wanted to become a yoga instructor and has never felt freer in (her) life.

The couples yoga classes help attendees appreciate the harmony between the divine masculine and feminine.

SU graduate student Allie Berger said that couples yoga is more of a tantric approach to yoga, meaning that it functions on the principle of universal masculinity and femininity. Together, Berger said, they create the world essentially.

However, Powers-Broccoli stressed that the couples yoga is open to any two people that simply want to destress. She added that anyone, regardless of sexual orientation, is invited to the classes.

I love teaching any yoga class that brings (couples) to a place of stillness and allows their essence to shine, Powers-Broccoli said.

And it was evident that Powers-Broccolis instruction brought the couples closer together.

One of the students, Kt DeOrdio, said that she gets to see her husband with a new perspective in the classes.

I get to see Brian in a different way. Im just focused on him, theres no distraction, she said.

Her husband Bryan DeOrdio said that with three kids under the age of five, they use these couples classes as time to focus on each other.

Another couple felt that the class helped bring them closer together.

I liked how (Powers-Broccoli) was able to help us connect better, because hes usually shy and Im shy too, Celina Wagner said about her experience with her boyfriend Anthony Benhart. But I feel like we end up having a deeper connection.

The class even encouraged the novice yoga practitioners among all the students to incorporate yoga practices into their daily routines. Benhart said that he has gained insight from the classes.

Honestly, I think I might start doing a little more meditating just before going to sleep to help me calm down Benhart said.

O Yoga Studio has another partner yoga workshop on Friday, Feb. 14 at 6 p.m., which is available for not just partners but also individuals who are open to making new friends at the class.

In addition to teaching classes at various yoga studios in Syracuse, Powers-Broccoli holds classes in the Barnes Center at The Arch on Mondays at 1 p.m.

Youre moving, youre becoming aware of your breath in movement, Powers-Broccoli said. It really brings you into yourself in a way that calms the nervous system and allows you to feel free.

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World's first yoga university outside India would start its post graduation course later this year in the US along with research in the ancient Indian practice and the admissions for it will begin in April, university officials said on Saturday.

The Vivekananda Yoga University (VAYU) has established its initial campus in Los Angeles with a budget of USD 5 million.

Sree Sreenath, a Professor from Case Western University, has been named its president and Indian yoga guru H R Nagendra as its chairman, the university said in a statement.

The programmes would roll out from August 2020, for which the admissions will be starting from April 2020 for the Master's programme in yoga under the leadership of Sree Sreenath as the founding President, the university said in a statement.

The announcement by the university came within three months of receiving official recognition from the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, California to offer yoga-based higher education programmes in November 2019.

As Swami Vivekananda said education is the manifestation of perfection already in man, VAYU aims at providing man-making and nation-building education by promoting an all-round personality development in students of generation next, Nagendra said in a statement to PTI.

VAYU is said to be the brain child of Nagendra, a former scientist from NASA, who has been working on converting yoga into a socially relevant science for the last four decades.

Having started the first Yoga University in India (S-VYASA) in 2002, Nagendra said he aspires to create a global university for yoga-based higher education combining the best of the East with the best of the West.

The university will help thousands of yoga teachers in the US whose yoga education was limited to 200 or 500 hours of certificate programmes to progress further into university-based higher education, said Prem Bhandari, a member of the VAYU board of directors.

It is further to the efforts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was instrumental in getting the UN declaration of International Day of Yoga on June 21st, his yoga guru H R Nagendra's team's hard work which made the establishment of a yoga university in US a reality, he said.

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I needed this yoga video. I mean, I really needed it. Before I gave this follow-along flow from Adriene Mishler a try, I had finished my workday with a stress headache, a sore throat, and a body full of aches. Naturally, I wanted to do some yoga to relieve tension and take time for myself (I'm also a huge fan of Yoga With Adriene on YouTube). After 40 minutes of "Yoga Kiss," I felt stretched out, cooled down, and, thanks to a series of core-focused moves at the end, energized in a good way.

Moral of the story? You deserve this. You deserve to tend to your body and your mind after a long day or even a short one and you deserve to make space for yourself. This flow is advertised as something that will "remind you of your worth" and will target "all parts of the body," as the YouTube description states, and the variety of poses and gentle affirmations from Adriene hold true to that promise.

You'll start in an upright posture, focusing on the breath and elongating the neck; then you'll move into Cat Cow and a period of holding Baby Cobra that might feel as wonderful for your upper-body as it did for mine. You'll pick up the pace with sequences that incorporate Forward Fold, planks, and high lunges (and, yes, holding those lunges brought heat to my legs big time).

One of the hardest poses for me in the flow was one where you had to balance in a squat position on the balls of your feet with your heels up, arms back, and palms facing down (in "airplane arms," as Adriene put it). The core work toward the end of the video also made me shake a bit (you should expect modified Boat Pose, among other movements).

Throughout, Adriene reminded us to lift our hearts to the sky to "kiss" the sky, if you will and to "move like you love yourself." While in Corpse Pose lying down, she talked about nurturing our bodies. "I love the idea that our yoga practice can kind of pick you up, give you a kiss, and really meet you wherever you are on any given day," she said. Show up on your mat and see what happens! We'll be right there with you.

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The collection consists of a dozen Rolls-Royces (including a 1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III), five Bentleys, a 1971 Pontiac Lemans, a 1973 Ford Mustang Mach 1, a Ford GT40, and several other cars. A number of vehicles belonging to Choudhury are reportedly still hidden from the public eye, including at least three Ferraris and six Mercedes-Benzs. A lawsuit filed against Choudhury's wife and children by Jafa-Bodden's lawyer suggests that the other vehicles could be somewhere in Nevada or Florida.

Choudhury's vehicles will be sent to auction at Palm Beach International Raceway on March 20 and March 21, though the money generated from the sales will likely never reach his victims. With more than $16 million in legal judgments, Choudhury filed for bankruptcy protection in November 2017.

The projected revenue generated from the car sales will nowhere be enough to satisfy the creditors, said bankruptcy trustee Robbin Itkin. She later added, Anything we can do to try to give something back to the people who are owed money is better than the situation where we are now.

The hypothetical value of the seized cars, which is estimated to range somewhere between $800,000 and $1.5 million, will likely go straight into the hands of Choudhury's creditors to settle outstanding debt. According to the Post, Choudhury owes the Miami warehouse owner $600,000 in unpaid storage bills, lawyers' fees, and other costs.

In total, nine women have accused Choudhury of rape, sexual assault, or sexual harassment since 2013. Coined "Yoga's bad boy, he has since re-entered the hot seat after the release of a new documentary on Netflix titled Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator. The film follows the history of the controversial Bikram Yoga saga and outlines the serious allegations that seem a better fit for fiction than reality.

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